Bush Job Approval Climbs to 42%
New Reuters/Zogby poll shows Republicans, weekly WalMart shoppers, Catholics, and men help buoy the President, but Democrats retain edge in battle for Congress......more

President Bush is trying to pardon himself.

Here’s the deal: Under the War Crimes Act, violations of the Geneva Conventions are felonies, in some cases punishable by death. When the Supreme Court ruled that the Geneva Convention applied to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees, President Bush and his boys were suddenly in big trouble. They’ve been working these prisoners over pretty good. In an effort to avoid possible prosecution they’re trying to cram this bill through Congress before the end of the week before Congress adjourns....more

Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 - 2006)

MEET: Max Linn
here

Gearing Up for Rove's Pre-Election "Surprises"

What those surprises might be range from announcing the capture or death of Osama bin Laden to a surgical strike on Iran's fledgling nuclear program to ignoring a possible major terrorist attack against the U.S. -- or, conversely, announcing that they've foiled a frightening urban bomb plot. Or all of the above, and more......more

How Can Any Christian Support the GOP?

Should any Christian support the current version of the GOP? This might seem like an odd question considering how so many have come to think GOP stands for God’s Own Party. The evidence refuting this notion has become overwhelming. The time has come for Christians of every stripe to re-consider whom they endorse and vote for......more

How Progressives Can Win in the Long Run

Right-wing groups spend ten times more on youth leadership development than progressives do. If we want to win, we need to start investing in the next generation of leaders......more

Olbermann’s Special Comment:
Re-writing History

After five years of skirting even the most inarguable of facts — that he was President on 9/11 and he must bear some responsibility for his, and our, unreadiness, Mr. Bush has now moved, unmistakably and without conscience or shame, towards re-writing history, and attempting to make the responsibility, entirely Mr. Clinton’s......more

STOP VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT!
Call both of your senators NOW and urge them to:

Vote NO on H.R. 4844.2. Do not allow H.R. 4844 to be attached to any appropriations conference report.

Sen. Bill NelsonPhone: (202) 224-5274
Sen. Mel MartinezPhone: (202) 224-3041

H.R. 4844 comes as a response to the right-wing fairy tale that undocumented immigrants are voting in mass numbers. But the only thing it would do is ensure that poor, minority and elderly voters, as well as students and voters with disabilities, would be disenfranchised.

Bill Clinton's "Fury"

Chomsky Book Still Tops Sales after Plug by Chavez at UN

The popular online company showed the 2003 book still as its biggest seller, after having claimed the top spot Friday following Chavez recommendation of it as "an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century ... and the greatest threat looming over our planet."......more

YouTube Making Politicians Sweat
Gaffes Caught On Tape, Posted On Popular Web Site Impacting Races

A posting there of a picture of Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut kissing President Bush helped fuel Lieberman's loss to anti-war candidate Ned Lamont in the recent primary in the Nutmeg State.....more

Be A Saint!
Crescent City rockin' with return of Saints for home opener

The 2-0 Saints will play the 2-0 Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football in the Saints' first home game since a 21-6 preseason loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Aug. 26, 2005 - three nights before Katrina nearly ended the Saintly days of yore.......more

Go .....Saint's
Go .....New Orlean's

Tom DeLay Gets Standing Ovation From Fox Audience

“No, no, no, under Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress.” DeLay said airily. He wagged his finger. “Bill Clinton didn’t do anything.” The crowd erupted into cheers......more

Bush's church urges pull-out of US troops from Iraq

US President George W. Bush’s own church has called for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and is urging direct action to end the war......more

The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 261.....click here

Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat

A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.....more

FOX NEWS: “Clinton Gets Crazed”
Fox news is already coining the interview as "Clinton gets Crazed"

Something very interesting Clinton brings up is the fact that when he did launch operations against bin Laden, Republicans quickly questioned his motives. Arlen Specter and Dan Coats (R-IN), were two very outspoken Senators who tried to associate Clinton going after bin Laden in 1998 with the movie "Wag the Dog" and that his bombing of an al Qaeda meeting was to divert attention from the Lewisky scandal......more

Seeds in the Arctic

The world's largest seed collection is being developed under the permafrost on the Arctic Sea island of Spitzbergen. The tens of thousands of varieties of wheat, corn and beans stored there could even survive a nuclear war. The survival of many crop plant could depend on it.....more

CITY OF DEATH
The Battle for Baghdad

Once the most progressive city in the Arab world, Baghdad has been ravaged by war and bombings. Everyone wants out, but not everyone can afford to leave -- and car bomb explosions are a daily fact of life.......more

Chavez to discount oil for U.S. poor

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited a Harlem church Thursday and promised to more than double the amount of discounted heating oil his country ships to needy Americans.....more

Buy Your Gas at Citgo

O'Reilly's Sneak Attack on Bloggers!

Unbeknownst to me, however, the show turned out to be a total set-up job in which host Bill O'Reilly and guest Jed Babbin spent the entire time attacking the web site Media Matters for having posted commentary in the past critical of them both......more